How Trump's DACA Decision Will Reverberate Politically10:55

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President Trump waves to the press as he walks out of St. John's Epicopal Church in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2017 after attending a service on the National Day of Prayer for victims of Hurricane Harvey he proclaimed earlier this week. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)This article is more than 2 years old.

The Trump administration announced its plan Tuesday to phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to avoid deportation temporarily and work legally.